Re: ALTER CAST - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ALTER CAST
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Msg-id 19317.1243373613@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to ALTER CAST  (Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>)
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Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> writes:
> Hi, any reason not to implement an ALTER CAST statement?

Mainly, because we don't really *want* every thinks-he-knows-something
DBA fooling around with the built-in casts.  If he actually knows enough
to know whether it's safe, then he knows enough to do it by poking the
catalogs.
        regards, tom lane


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